Levantine future

John Bolton knows that Sykes-Picot can't stand
there's no shared culture binding Syrians
a country's more than lines drawn in the sand
entrenching a dead empire's foreign sins
The U.N.'s charter proclaims Peoples' rights
to self-determine how to run their state
it's futile for Putin's army to fight
beyond al-Assad's expiration date
Good neighbors can agree to build a wall
that shelters each to grow on his own path
in ways he couldn't were all pent with all
where daily friction kindles into wrath
'til meddling from far-off powers will cease
a region steeped in blood cannot know peace